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parts of the Hellenistic world. Three contributions deal directly with issues of dating. Ch. Crowther establishes a provisional palaeographical sequence for Hellenistic Koan inscriptions and identiμes different epigraphical hands. His work, though open to revision as new material becomes available, must form the basis for all future discussions. Chr. Habicht's article discusses the chronology of the Koan eponymous magistrates, the monarchoi, revising the dates (downward) of the victor lists of the Koan Greater Asklepieia, and of two documents from Halasarna (down by 25-30 years). His redating, if accepted (I μnd it persuasive), has consequences well beyond the island's own history. H. herself, again using epigraphical evidence, critically revises the chronological sequences established by D. Berges for the many cylindrical funerary altars found on the island. H. Ingvaldsen shows that personal names on Koan coins cannot yet be μrmly dated and prosopographically μxed but holds out the promise that with further analysis of die links such results will one day be possible. The evidence of Koan amphorae, too, provides invaluable dating sequences relevant to many aspects of Koan history and to the Hellenistic world and its economy more generally. Amphorae from Halasarna are analysed by V. Georgopoulos, while H. Johnson and G. Finkielsztejn discuss, in a wider Mediterranean (and methodological) perspective, the evidence of Koan amphorae exported to the southeastern Mediterranean and the southern Levant. The volume's important and fascinating μnal paper, by Eirene Poupaki, successfully questions established interpretations of the chronology and nature of the exploitation of the island's marble and stone quarries and points the way to future research. Two further papers, by K. Rigsby and K. Buraselis, deal with aspects of the Koan Asklepieia (theôroi and asylia respectively); S. Carlsson places Koan democracy within a wider discussion of democracy in the Hellenistic period.